Any way to keep "X items have protection disabled" settings while enabling updates?

Any way to retain existing "X items have protection disabled" settings during protection updates?

I have one site I use a lot that's in the protections list: Excite.

The problem is that every time I "Download All Protection Updates" the only practical way to enable them is the "Enable All Protection" link. This function ignores any entries I may have manually unchecked and removed protections against previously, (like I need to do to log into Excite).

What I would need is something like an "Enable all NEW protections" function.

Would there be some way to edit the backend so as to cause a specific definition not to appear anymore?

For instance, when sbdatabase2.dtb gets downloaded, is it a full set of definitions to date, or does it only download an incremental set of protections ? And if it only downloads an incremental, is there a stable way to go into the sbdatabase2.dtb file and manually delete a protection definition out of it's list?